How to Access

To 'add' a new Banner or 'edit' an existing Banner, navigate to the Banner Manager:

Select Components→Banners

Click the 'New' button to create a new Banner.

To 'Edit' an existing Banner, in Banner Manager click on an Banner's Title or click the Banner's check box and then click the Edit button in the Toolbar.

Description

Used to add or edit banners which can be displayed on your Joomla! website. Remember to create at least one Banner Client and one Banner Category before creating any Banners.

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Details

Details Sidebar

Details Tab

Name. The name of the Banner. This is the name that will display in the Name column of the Banner Manager.

Alias. The internal name of the item, also used in the URL when SEF is activated. Normally, you can leave this blank and Joomla! will fill in a default value. The default value is the Title or Name in lower case and with dashes instead of spaces. You may enter the Alias manually. The Alias should consist of lowercase letters and hyphens (-). No blank spaces or underscores are allowed. Non-Latin characters can be allowed in the alias if you set the Unicode Aliases option to Yes in Global Configuration. If this option is set to No and the title includes non-Latin characters, the Alias will default to the current date and time (for example "2012-12-31-17-54-38").

Category. The Category this item belongs to.

Type. The type of banner to display. Options are an image file or custom HTML code.

Status: Published status of the item. Possible values are:

Published: The item is published. This is the only state that will allow regular website users to view this item.

Unpublished: The item is unpublished.

Archived: The item has been archived.

Trashed: The item has been sent to the Trash.

Custom Code (Only displayed for banner type Custom). The HTML code to insert in the place of a banner image file.

Image (Only displayed for banner type Image). Image file to display for the banner. Specify the relative path to the banner image to use or click the Select button to browse and select the image file to use. Use the Media Manager to upload Banner image files to your site.

Width (Only displayed for banner type Image). The fixed width to resize the banner image to. Leave this blank if you want to use the actual width of the banner image file.

Height (Only displayed for banner type Image). The fixed height to resize the banner image to. Leave this blank if you want to use the actual height of the banner image file.

Alternative Text (Only displayed for banner type Image). Text to display in place of the banner image in the event the image cannot be displayed.

ID. This is a unique identification number for this item assigned automatically by Joomla!. It is used to identify the item internally, and you cannot change this number. When creating a new item, this field displays 0 until you save the new entry, at which point a new ID is assigned to it.

Publishing Options Tab

Max. Impressions. The number of Impressions purchased for this Banner. Impressions are the number of times a Banner will be displayed on a page. Check the 'Unlimited' checkbox if an unlimited number of Impressions is allowed.

Total Impressions. The number of times this Banner has been displayed on a web page to a user. No entry is allowed. You can reset this number to 0 by pressing the 'Reset impressions' button.

Total Clicks. The number of times this Banner has been clicked. No entry is allowed. You can reset this number to 0 by pressing the 'Reset clicks' button.

Client. The Client Name for this Banner. Select one from the drop-down list box of existing Clients.

Purchase Type. The purchase type of the banner. This is used to indicate how the banner client purchased the display time for the banner - monthly, yearly, etc...

Track Impressions. Whether or not to track the number of times the banner is displayed to web site visitors.

Track Clicks. Whether or not to track the number of times the banner is clicked by web site visitors.